'Hello, I'm a professor in a movie' meme pokes fun at bad film tropes

Some of the most egregious character tropes in film -- the professor who underlines a word on the board to start class, the writer who never pitches anything but is somehow always working -- have found their way into a meme.

On Tuesday, Rory Turnbull, an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaii in Manoa tweeted about a film trope he'd noticed -- one that you have also noticed, probably, in every single movie with a classroom scene. "Hello, I'm a professor in a movie, I only reach the point of my lecture right as class is ending," he wrote. "Then I yell at students about the reading / homework as they leave."

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After Turnbull's tweet, dozens of people shared other character types that aren't necessarily lazy,per se -- they just allow for shocking narrative expedience and probably wouldn't fly IRL.

Okay, fine, some of them are very lazy.

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Now, if you'll excuse us, we're off to take six months to write a sprawling personal essay about our love lives. The budget is unlimited.

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